Garment



HATCH.

GARMENT:

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4. 1916.

1,803,663, Patented May13, 1919.

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GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 4, 1918. Serial No. 261,136

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L NATHAN HATCH, a citizen of the United States, and av resident of Albany, county of Albany State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Garments; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appert-ains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an article of wearing apparel for men. women and children and is particularly adapted for under garments such as union suits but is not confined thereto.

One of the objects of the invention is to construct a garment which will fit the body of the wearer perfectly and securely, and to make it very easy to put on and take oll'.

Another object is to construct a garment in which it is not necessary to provide an objectionable number of fastening means and objectionable lines of buttons and buttonholcs or other securing means.

The garment is so constructed. that it may be easily donned and as easily slipped oil the body of the wearer. yet while being worn it is securely and effectually held in place upon the body due to the new and particular construction thereof at the shoub der. chest and neck portions.

Referring to the "drawing:

Figure 1 is a front view of an embodiment of my invention shown in a combina tion garment.

Fig". 2 is another View of the front of the upper portion of a garment embodying my invention, the garment being shown with one of the chest flaps open.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the pattern blank of the upper or body portion of the garment.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of my garment in the position the parts assume when the upper or body portion is either being donned or removed from the body of the wearer.

The garment may be made either of woven or knitted fabric. and except for the features of construction which constitute my invention it is made in the usual way, namely, the leg portions may be long or short, the arm portions long or short or they may be omitted altogether: the leg and arm ends are ribbed and finished in the usual manner. and the arm holes and border about the neck and body fiaps are also finished in the usual way.

The garment may also be provided with an open and overlapping fly construction and it is provided with the usual open and overlapping substantially longitudinal opening in the seat portion thereof.

The seat portion is constructed in the usual way by means of two substantially triangular patterns or inserts which are socured to the garment and to each other, and a fastening means, as usual may be provided therefor.

In the drawing, A represents the body portion of the garment, and B the leg portions. Extending upwardly from the points 2 and 3 on the respective sides and each at a substantial distance below the arm pits is a back flap C and two similarly shaped chest laps D and E.

The back flap C is formed between the points 2 and 3 and 8 and 9. respectively, the line between the points 8 and 9 being curved to fit the back of the neck of the wearer and to form shoulder flaps 3L N for the purpose hereinafter described.

The chest flaps D and E are formed between the points 2 and d and 3 and and a medial line extending along the front from the point 6 to the point 7. the said point 6 being situated. a tiproximately in a horizontal line between the points 2 and 3.

An opening for the neck is formed by cutting a V-shape on the lines extending from 7 to 4 and from? to 5.

A single fastening means which may be a "button a and buttonhole 5 or any other suitable means such as a string or pin, is provided at the point 7 to secure the chest flaps together at that point, and the two upper corners of the back flap forming shoulder flaps M and N are folded over the respective upper corners of the front flaps forming shoulder flaps O and P and secured together along the upper boundary ofthe armhole as by stitching or anyother suitable means from approximately the points 10 and 11; 12 and 13.

An additional button hole 0 is placed near the button a, so that should the button a become detached an ordinary collar button may be used in connection with the two buttonholes to secure the chest flaps together at that point.

As has been heretofore described in prior patents issued to me, it is preferable to turn and secure the back shoulder flaps over the front shoulder flaps so that the suspenders Patented May s; 1919.

of the wearer will not cause Touch" either flop, which might he case the front shoulder flops he turned or "back shoulder flap,

With my improved construction whergerment is adjusted in place upon the body of the wearer, the shoulder por.,-ons ft into the natural contour of the body and the c tral chest flaps may then be secured ether at the point '7. The result is a. neat homo i and readily donned and dolled giillllfilllj pro vided with e iniuir. '1, amount of fastening means, thus affording agreet saving to the manufacturer and u. 'znately to the indiridual user of the go: oent.

From the above dcscdption and with special reference to the ill .o Eje tion in I it will. be appreciated that the co: of my improved garment is such that when the chest flops are unfastened, the wearer enabled to provide a maximum. opening in the top of the garment by means of which it may be readily slipped over the body and. adjusted to the shoulders in doiming some, and on. the other hand. only he ily dislodged 10111 the shoulders and. slippee oil the body of the wearer.

Having now described my invention What I claim as new and desire to :ure by Let-- ters Patent is:

1. In a garment, a trunk portion, a single back flap and a pair of chest flaps comprising the chest covering, each of the said three flaps extending upwardly from the trunk portion, the upper corners of each flap forming four shoulder portions, the two shoulder portions of the back flap each extending respectively over the single shoulsihoulder per secui. respec v of each of cl outer edges,

2b in e Fftlfl'lflfififi C brick flap and at 1 ing the chest core, flops extending ll, 3.. d611, up 7 mg four shouh r1 der portions of the bee respectively orer tions of each of shoulder portions of the cured respectirely to tlu I of each of the chest f edges, and means pair of lieps com; i 7 one to the other at 3, in e Hit, a hack flap suhstzmti ii re the upper cor t portions, 21. p tielly triangular ner of each fori'z'iing e. shoulder flaps on each gether out their outer or ren'lomhly securing the w a medial point, the meeting each other he! 0 v on a substantial Vertical In Witness whereof I hand at the city of ii bony and State flew October, 1918. 

